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Hi! I know you don't know me but my bf suffers from did and has only recently realized this and started treatment. Older alters of his say that there used to be an inner world and one even told me that they think a 'system collapse' has happened, so I guess my question is what all information can you offer me to understand and help him get his inner world back and restore any communication at all with his alters. Thanks in advance! And sorry if I'm being rude!

hi, i am in no way an expert in innerworlds so this may be a bit tough for me to answer. i can give you what i have though.

i’m also not sure about what a system collapse is, but i know innerworlds can sometimes be less accessible to certain alters or can be harder to get to when something causes an increase in dissociative barriers. i’d try to figure out if there’s something that might have triggered this lack of communication to happen and try to figure out how to deal with it or cope with what’s going on. if ur bf has a therapist, it would be good to talk to them about it, even if it’s not about the did/innerworld disappearance, but about what most likely was the cause. if it has to do with undiscovered trauma tho, he should not go digging into that.

he could try reaching out in his mind to specific alters, see if they’ll respond. he could also try to build an innerworld manually; not all innerworlds automatically exist, some are made. i have a few pictures on my phone from a post i saw maybe a year ago with some innerworld building tips. here they are:

also, i recently made a post on system communication and journaling for summer system education week. it’s got a lot of tips and resources to go with them. here’s the post

hope this helps, i wish u and ur bf good luck with this

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HELLO I JUST FOUND OUT YOU DIDNT NEED DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE (LIKE FULL BLACKOUT WAKING UP IN A DIFFERENT PLACE) TO HAVE DID??????

WHAT

You are not what happened to you. You didn't deserve to go through all that. You deserved to be loved, to feel safe, to be safe. You deserved kindness. Patience. You deserved better.

I'm so fucking sick of sysmeds fucking ignoring OSDD-1. Sure they'll include us in their bullshit premise that DID/OSDD is only caused by trauma, and is the only way to be a system. But the second they start talking in anything but simple sound bites we don't fucking exist. Every fucking misguided argument and scrap of evidence they cite is about DID and only DID.

And like, there's so many mistakes they make. They act like the DSM isn't the most funded and peer reviewed document in psychology (and that it needs to be read between the lines). They ignore that there are systems out there that don't have DID/OSDD. They ignore that cause of a system and cause of a disorder aren't necessarily the same.

So it's no surprise that they also ignore the fact that none of what they ever say is about OSDD systems. We're always an afterthought or part of some asinine abbreviation that's probably only mentioned because of autocorrect/ autocomplete.

i want people to know, people with mental health disorders and not alike, that someone can have a mental illness and be aware of their mental illness.

idk why so many people dismiss the voices of people or activists who have mental disorders because they're able to (at least for the most part) understand their symptoms and live with it.

and vise versa, getting upset at people who are unaware of their symptoms and/or detached from reality because of them, expecting them to do better when they obviously can't or don't know how.

ultimately we're just sick of seeing ableism with mental illnesses that are always either "yOuR fAkINg lOl" or "you need to literally be locked away and sedated". and said ableism effecting how people with mental health disorders are treated and how they treat themselves.

if someone is saying your faking, you aren't. faking is a consious effort and your needs matter just as much as the extreme cases.

if they say you're "crazy" or "broken", you aren't. you just need extra love and care. you are hurting and it's okay to hurt and need help, there's nothing wrong with you to need that.

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